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Al and Carmen are a bit thick...

Revisado: 01-21-24

If this is a true account, it's astonishing how mindlessly thick Al and Carmen are. Even after experiencing bleeding floors, plates and silverware being moved back into the cabinets, hearing footsteps and music, and unseen entities brushing by; they deny it is happening and accuse their son of lying about his experiences. Threats of punishment and telling him to shut up. Without a doubt, Al and Carmen's denials and reactions were solid enablers for the haunting and possession.

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Absence of morals in leadership

Revisado: 01-08-22

King Richard does an excellent job of explaining Watergate.

Any good or moral acts from the Nixon Whitehouse are tainted by an administration steeped in corruption. The more you look, the more corruption you find. Nixon is an example of a lifetime of incremental acceptance of immoral and illegal means to achieve ends. To Nixon, dirty tricks funded by campaign cortributions, obstruction of justice, selling ambassadorships, using The IRS against his "enemies", and political spin anchored in fantasy was politics - plain and simple. He surrounded himself with sycophants who enabled deeper plunges into self-deception. Richard Nixon entertained epic levels of self-pity, self-deception and half-truth justifications, while his aides were fired and sent to prison to take the fall. In the end, the proverb "there is no honor among thieves" was prescient. Nixon's legacy is a wake of distruction and defenders backed by flawed justifications.

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Music is very annoying and distracting

Revisado: 11-25-17

The music used for each episode is simply awful - loud, shrieking and annoying. This would be a great production if the music were edited out.

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Too easily and quickly dismissed by some reviewers

Revisado: 03-02-17

Patricia Cornwell has brought some degree of analytical rigor in her investigation that is not matched by the investigations of other suspects.

Ideally, competing theories should be judged by a side-by-side comparison of the data and analyses. To my knowledge, the analytical methods applied by Cornwell on her investigation have not been matched in other investigations.

While this by itself does not automatically make Patricia Cornwell bullet proof, it should significantly raise the bar for competing theories.

It is OK to disagree with Patricia Cornwell on the identity of Jack the Ripper. But, do so on the basis of solid data, good analysis and well founded facts.

After 130 years, this case matters. The proof is in imagining life in a world where this case no longer matters.

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Powerful Testimony

Revisado: 10-13-13

I have no problem saying that I am a Christian. Christianity has suffered at the hand of popular media over the past years. Elizabeth Smart's testimony shows the power and strength of faith in the face of complete and absolute evil. There are parts of this book that are extremely hard to read. It is difficult, if not impossible, to imagine two individuals more demonic than Brian David Mitchell and Wanda Barzee. Forgiveness and compassion are essential cornerstones of Christianity. But forgiveness and compassion do not come without effort. Brian David Mitchell and Wand Barzee easily and happily lived at the same level of the worst SS guards at Auschwitz. Mitchell and Barzee are completely devoid of humanity. One example of the power of God is that he can forgive SS guards at Auschwitz, Mitchell and Barzee when we cannot.

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An excellent reference

Revisado: 12-29-12

This is a fascinating look at the investigations into the ripper killings. The daily lives of the victims is vividly illustrated by the testimony of the people who knew them personally as well as the police and examiners who worked the case. The actual facts of this case are more compelling than any fictional account. These accounts serve to underscore the absolutely brutal and soulless nature of the killer.

This book has received some negative reviews on amazon.com. One of the main complaints is that this is a rehash of other books. A good deal of this book does come from verbatim testimony taken during the investigations. This is necessary detail for a serious investigation that adds to the credibility of the work.

The author, Trevor Marriott; a retired police investigator, does raise some very worthwhile points and challenges some long accepted points in the case.

- The Goulston Street graffito; the famous "The Juews..." message, long assumed to be the work of the killer, may have and may not have had anything to do with the killings.

- While not new, Marriott explores killings beyond the canonical five victims that may have been the work of Jack the Ripper.

- Many more...

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Deflates claims that only a few knew

Revisado: 10-13-12

I grew up in a town close to Camp Forrest where German POWs were held in the continental United States during the war. Although this book deals with German POWs held in The United Kingdom, this book was of particular interest to me. I was shocked at how prevalent the ideas about people in territories invaded by nazi troops were. It seemed to be more or less accepted that regardless of any written rules of conduct (which seem nebulous at times), that committing rape and murder were perfectly acceptable practices. Any small act was accepted as a pretext for the most appalling crimes against humanity. The "thousand year reich" will certainly be remembered for far more than a thousand years for these acts. I pray that we do better.

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Good - but the actual case is more interesting

Revisado: 01-02-12

This is a good and fairly structured fiction based on the Jack the Ripper killings in the late 19th century in Whitechapel. It suffers from the same problems seen in fictional accounts of the sinking of the Titanic and other historical fiction; the actual facts and case are far more interesting than the fictional characters. The actual history outshines this story.

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Hard to take

Revisado: 05-30-11

This book is a bit hard to take. It comes across as a dump of Popular Science, The National Enquirer and the same arrogant ignorance behind the "Coexisit" bumper sticker. The text offers an extremely contradictory suggestion that we accept The Gospel of Christianity with the surrender to God offered by Islam. Christians surrender to God by accepting Christ as our saviour - in other words, Christians surrender to God by accepting the Good News of The Gospel. Islam denies the death and Resurrection of Christ. Islam rejects the very foundation of Christianity. For a Christian, this is not optional and not up for debate. A religion that merges the major religions would be complete folly and solve nothing.

This book is an unfortunate mix of truths and half-truths. Read it (or listen to it) with your eyes and ears open. Listen carefully to who this book suggests we worship.

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Still has Great Power to Offend

Revisado: 04-24-11

This work was (and is) highly contreversial and has lost none of it's power to offend. Hannah Arendt, no doubt felt that she was being honest and straightforward. Her narrative often seems far more critical of Israel than the perpetrators of The Holocaust. This is a hard, cold and uncaring narritive. There is an almost complete absence of sympathy for the victims of The Holocaust - only the flippant dismisal that is only appreciated by those who exercise it. It is easy to see why Arendt is often portrayed as a "self lothing Jew". Her unrelenting theme seems to be: this was a ridiculous and unneccesary show trial and look at all the bad and silly things that Israel is doing. Why - how dare Israel kidnap Eichmann and take him to Israel. When she occasionally manages to put her axe aside, the details are useful. Apart from this the "Banality of Evil" can easily be applied to Hannah Arendt herself.

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